Telling people you have Parkinson’s disease is harder than it sounds. Even people who consider themselves open by nature can find themselves hesitating, calculating, and in some cases staying silent altogether, sometimes for years. A March 2026 webinar hosted by the Philadelphia & Richmond Veterans Administration addressed the emotional and practical dimensions of disclosure from diagnosis onward.  These webinar notes will be of most interest to those with young onset Parkinson’s who are still employed or those newly diagnosed, two groups most likely to delay disclosure and most likely to pay a price for delaying disclosure of the diagnosis.